Eben announces Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd., after over a year (incorporated Sept 10, 2012).
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4907
Lance Howarth (not Eben) is the Foundation's CEO.
You heard it first here:
At LinuxCon last week, Eben was introduced as "RPF's Founder and Executive Director",
http://www.element14.com/community/thread/26833?start=7&tstart=0
but now we hear that Eben is "CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading)".
RPi.org user Heater wrote on Aug 7, 2013:
The Foundation wants to be getting on with it's educational mission not spending its resources building cheap computers for everyone.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=52064&start=2
Similarly, user LemmeFatale wrote in the same thread:
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is an education-focussed charity, not an organisation to be leveraged in order to obtain cheap gear unsuited to their actual goals.
Similarly, JamesH wrote in the same thread:
Android was never really an option for education, so missing it isn't a problem to the Foundation.
Similarly, mod mahjongg wrote in the same thread:
you are talking about commercial products, forget that! the PI isn't a commercial product.
Maybe now that the cat is out of the bag, RPi Trading can be more forthcoming about plans for building cheap comercial computers for everyone,
and we may hear fewer claims that new things won't happen because they're not important for education or charity.
p.s.
Lance Howarth has been a director of RPi Trading since 28 January 2013.
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/7742756/lance-howarth
